Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject: Commissar of State
As early as September 19, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs and First Rank Commissar of State Security, Lavrentiy Beria, ordered the NKVD to create the Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees to manage Polish prisoners. The NKVD took custody of Polish prisoners from the Red Army, and proceeded to organise a network of reception centers and transit camps and arrange rail transport to prisoner-of-war camps in the western USSR. The largest camps were located at Kozelsk (Optina Monastery), Ostashkov (Stolbnyi Island on Seliger Lake near Ostashkov) and Starobelsk. Other camps were at Jukhnovo (rail station "Babynino"), Yuzhe (Talitsy), rail station "Tyotkino" (90 kilometres (56 mi) from Putyvl), Kozelshchyna, Oranki, Vologda (rail station "Zaonikeevo") and Gryazovets.[
According to a report from 19 November 1939, the NKVD had about 40,000 Polish POWs: about 8,000-8,500 officers and warrant officers, 6,000-6,500 police officers and 25,000 soldiers and NCOs who were still being held as POWs.[3][18][28][29] In December, a wave of arrests took into custody some Polish officers who were not yet imprisoned, Ivan Serov reported to Beria on 3 December that "in all, 1,057 former officers of the Polish Army had been arrested."[15] The 25,000 soldiers and non-commissioned officers were assigned to forced labors (road construction, heavy metallurgy).[15]
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